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A 30something, 1.5 generation Korean-American/New Yorker who spends her day as an HR exec. specializing in corporate diversity & inclusion. I get to think about ways to make "The Man" less male, white, and straight. It's the best job in the world! When I'm not trying to change corporate America, I teach yoga and dabble in holistic health counseling. I have an MBA from New York University Stern School of Business and my undergraduate from the University of Michigan. Lesser known facts about me: I enjoy b&w film photography, training for endurance races, and making homemade jam. Other mindless observations can be found at http://itsbo.blogspot.com/
Stop blaming MSG!
The New York Times ran a story today about Robyn O’Brien, a mother of three in Colorado, who recently began a crusade to educate people on what she believes to be the link between food additives and the perceived increase in childhood allergies. Basically, Robyn O’Brien believes that all of our medical woos can be blamed on the herbicides, artificial additives, and Frankenstein food being pushed onto the American public by giant, evil, profit-driven corporations. [...] Continue »
Barack Obama Wins Iowa Democratic Caucus
I assume that most everyone has already read that Barack Obama won the Iowa Democratic caucus tonight, the first step towards winning the party nomination… and then possibly the White House. Depending on your political leanings you may either be overjoyed or disappointed by this news. Regardless of your views on the war in Iraq, health care, terrorism, the economy, gun control, and social values I hope everyone views Obama’s win as a singular landmark [...] Continue »
Trans-racial Adoptive Parents Behaving Badly
It has not been a good week for trans-racial adoptive parents. First there was the case of the Dutch diplomat and his wife, which I wrote about earlier this week, who dumped their adopted Korean daughter on Hong Kong officials after 7 years. Now, a woman in Indianapolis has been charged with killing her adopted Korean 13 month old. Rebecca Kyrie is facing the charges of murder, battery resulting in death, neglect resulting in death, and aggravated battery in [...] Continue »
Dutch couple returns Korean adopted daughter cause she “doesn’t fit”
A Dutch diplomat and his wife dumped their eight year old Korean adopted daughter on Hong Kong officials claiming that she was unable to “fit in” with the family. Not surpringly, the couple’s horrific act has made headline news around the world and ignited a wave of international anger. Raymond Poeteray, currently the vice consul at the Dutch Consulate General in Hong Kong, and his wife adopted baby Jade from South Korea in 2000 at [...] Continue »
Are Filipinos Asian or Pacific Islanders?
8 Asians was recently asked the question: Why do some Asian-Americans say that Filipinos are actually Pacific Islanders, and not really Asian? Our fearless leader Ernie threw the question out to the teaming masses and the answer we came up with… well, lets just say it was a mighty group effort. Ben started us off by very wisely pointing out that the Philippines was, in fact, a set of islands in the Pacific Ocean. I [...] Continue »
Speaking of “Yellow Face”: David Henry Hwang
AsianWeek’s recent review of infamous Yellow Face performance (which John blogged about earlier this week) seems particularly timely given that David Henry Hwang’s first new play in 10 years, Yellow Face, opened this week at the historic Public Theater in New York City. Reviews have been mixed thus far. The quasi-biographic play is a self-analytic exploration of racial identity and politics. The play begins with the protaginist, simply called D.H.H, leading a protest against the [...] Continue »
Can’t We All Just Get Along? New research explores tensions between US’ largest ethnic groups
New American Media, the nations first and largest collaboration of ethnic news media, released the results of the first multilingual poll examining how the US’ largest ethnic groups feel about each other, as well as their attitudes on key elements of American society. The goal of the poll is to create a basis to improve relationships between minority groups and spur better media coverage of ethnic communities. “We need to know what’s being whispered [...] Continue »
Presidential Campaign Staff Diversity: Should it matter?
DiversityInc. recently took a look at the campaign staff diveristy of the leading presidential candidates. Considering that the democratic party has three diverse candidates (Hilary Clinton, Bill Richardson, and Barack Obama) to the republican’s big fat zero, it’s no surprise that democratic candidates would have greater staff diversity. One could go on and on and try to make some sort of correlation between campaign staff diversity and a candidates’ ability to effectively lead an increasingly [...] Continue »
Everyone’s favorite billionaire mayor warns Chinese of global warming
It’s amazing to think that it’s only been 35 years since Nixon first visited China and began the process of normalizing relations between the two countries. Mike Bloomberg, possibly the worlds most powerful mayor, is spending a few days kicking it with the Chinese and discussing everything from information freedom, urbanization, and global warming. “Some people believe that by mid-century, as [much] as 75 percent of China’s population may be city dwellers,” he said. “Even an occasional [...] Continue »
Reason 422 for why I would be a horrible Japanese man
Besides the fact that I am neither Japanese nor male, I also have absolutely no desire to weigh 120 lbs. According to this article in the International Herald Tribune, the hottest new trend amongst hip, young Japanese men is to be slim, cute, and oh so crushable. “It’s the men who want to be slender, vulnerable and protected. Young males between the ages of 18 and 30 make up the slimmest segment of the population [...] Continue »
Who should sculpt MLK Jr?
A Chinese artist was selected to sculpt the planned Martin Luther King Jr. tribute in Washington D.C. and now the CA chapter of the NAACP, black artists, and American granite workers are in a xenophobic tizzy. Objectors have taken issue with the fact that 1) Sculptor Lei Yixin is Chinese and not American, 2) He’s Asian and not Black, and 3) He’ll probably use Chinese granite rather than American granite for the project. A Black [...] Continue »
A Day Without Asian Immigrants
The 2004 movie “A Day Without a Mexican” took a comical look at what would happen if all Mexican immigrants up and disappeared overnight. As you might imagine, much dismay and hilarity ensued. The US economy comes to a grinding halt and good ‘ol boys are shown desperately beseeching Mexicans to return to the US to take their righful place as the lowest men on the economic totem pole. If this New York Times article about [...] Continue »
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